The never-before-published images, taken for a magazine in 2000 and obtained exclusively by The Post, include a number of frames showing the former “Saturday Night Live” star grabbing the media mogul’s buttocks as they pose back to back.

An even more shocking snap shows the pair posing on a bed, with Franken cupping Huffington’s breast with one hand.

“Franken was clowning around, but it really isn’t funny,” said a source from the shoot. “That’s his tactic, pretend like it’s all a big joke. Arianna was pushing his hands away. He was groping her. There was some fun attached to it, but she wasn’t enjoying it. She definitely told him to stop and pushed him away.”

“Franken stood there with his hand on her bottom for a long time, because there are numerous frames, each taken seconds apart, and his hand was there the whole time — his hand wasn’t just there for a quick moment,” a source told Emily Smith of the New York Post.

The pictures were taken by award-winning photographer Harry Benson.

Last Thursday, Franken was accused of groping, unwanted kissing by radio host and model Leeann Tweeden.

On Monday, Lindsay Menz came forward saying Democrat Senator Al Franken inappropriately touched her at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010.

Franken reportedly grabbed her buttocks tightly while taking a photo.

“It wasn’t around my waist. It wasn’t around my hip or side. It was definitely on my butt,”Lindsay Menz told CNN.